MSNBC’sRachel Maddow fought back tears Tuesday night as she struggled to read the Associated Press report about the Trump administration’s operation of “tender age” shelters for babies and young children.

“This is incredible,” Maddow began. “Trump administration officials have been sending babies and other young children …,” she trailed off, becoming emotional. After a brief pause, she continued “… to at least three …” but began to break down again. Maddow then attempted to cut away, asking her producers, “Can we put up the graphic of this? Thank you. Do we have it?”

While Maddow tried to finish reading the report, she realized she couldn’t and abruptly ended the segment by throwing to Lawrence O’Donnell, who was reporting live from Brownsville, Texas.

Maddow later apologized on Twitter for her breakdown and followed up with a thread of tweets explaining what she had a hard time saying out loud.

“Trump administration officials have been sending babies and other young children forcibly separated from their parents to at least three “tender age” shelters in South Texas…

“Decades after the nation’s child welfare system ended the use of orphanages over concerns about the lasting trauma to children, the administration is standing up new institutions to hold Central American toddlers that the government separated from their parents…

“The thought that they are going to be putting such little kids in an institutional setting? I mean it is hard for me to even wrap my mind around it,” said Kay Bellor, vice president for programs at Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, “Toddlers are being detained.”